Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 34

The third was a glow-worm, and how he found his way there the lamp could not imagine, yet there he was, and could really give light as well as the others.

Who acts: third, worm, lamp · What happens: be, find, not imagine, give · To what, where: glow worm, way, light

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, worm, lamp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worm	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 worm	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 worm	det
5	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worm	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 glow	punct
7	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 found	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 worm	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 way	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lamp	det
17	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 imagine	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 imagine	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 imagine	advmod
20	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 way	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 was	nsubj
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 give	cc
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
29	really	really	ADV	_	30 give	advmod
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 worm	parataxis
31	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	36 others	cc
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 as	fixed
34	as	as	ADP	_	32 as	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 others	det
36	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 give	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 worm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the third	a glow worm		tree rules
2	find	past	worm	worm's way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	not imagine	could	the lamp	worm's way not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
4	be	past	worm		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	could		light		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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